The nerds reveal their top-five title contenders for the upcoming NBA season, discussing how far Damian Lillard would take the Miami Heat, what chance LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers have to win it all and whether Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets are the favorites to repeat.
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I like Logan a lot. Carson has a bit more personality sure, but Logan has the in-detail statistics which I think makes them a great team! Nerd Sesh and Hoops Tonight will be huge very soon.
Humm, you guys are laughable. I suggest new careers in comic books analysis, not sports.š
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Love my warriors flying under the radar.
Health alone is an crucial compent, the difference between butler or tatum playing on bad ankle or ja playing with 1 hand is massive in the playoffs
Ranking assuming perfect health
1. Denver (champions, jokic murray MPJ gordon KCP is the best starting 5 in the league)
2. heat (butler bam dame)
3. boston (jt+JB is guaranteed ECF)
4. lakers (ad+bron healthy is nearly cheating, title favorite depending on reaves developement)
5. gsw/bucks/suns (major recent collapses in the playoffs with every team: poole gamewinning bricks/giannis losing 2 games against 7 undrafted players/suns back to back years getting outplayed by european superstar on offence in closeout games, jokic dropped 35/10 in game 6 and the year before that the literal exact statline from luka in game 7 with 35/10)
Would have a tree some with these guys
Some courageous analysis here guys. Basically no teams get better and everything is the same as last season
The Ringer guys are watching this like hey we the og basketball geeks.
I'm a huge heat fan but bad karma to assume he's already on the heat. Nothing is for sure until it Happens.
If the heat get Damian lillard, I believe it will be a heat vs nuggets finals rematch
The suns are going to win the title and yall didnt include them? lmaooooooooooo
Good you started with your stream with GSW outside of top 5 so I am not listening to the rest anymore lol, they are #5 atleast. for me if all are healthy, it is Nuggets, Celtics, Bucks, Warriors, Lakers, os 1-5 In that order. Yes Heat is outside top5 because I think their East run is more of the other contenders choking and Caleb Martin playing out of his mind in the ECF.
Caruso and Reaves Sesh
Dubs will go all the way this year
I agree with the list Nerd Sesh brought out but how can Miami be at #2 based on a hypothetical? Itās one thing to doubt AD and Bron but to speculate on a player Miami has yet to acquire is silly. Right now Portland is not interested in trading Dame to Miami. They can easily pull what the Nets did to KD and wait to trade Dame to a team before the deadline. Watch out for a team like OKC who has TONS of assets at their disposal.
finally. a better setup ! the orginal one with your faces too close to the camera and with harsh strong direct front lighting was kinda districting. Especially with the huge catch lights in the eyes (side lighting would have been better – especially for men. that look was best reserved for women).
I don't get Miami at #2 even with Dame. We're talking about a Cinderalla run this past post season with a bunch of guys that played above their career and season averages all at once. I agree Dame, Butler and Bam make some sense from a scoring at different levels pov but Butler will have to play off ball offensively since Dame is ball dominant. Dame is a terrible defender and Miami will have no depth whatsoever unless Portland's FO is brain dead.
Excellent analysis. My top 5 contenders:
1. Nuggets (but losing Bruce Brown is a HUGE loss)
2. Suns
3. Celtics
4. Lakers
5. Heat/Bucks (tossup)
I think, if Lebron was healthy, they wouldve beat the nuggets. Everyone is gonna jump down my throat and call me a bronsexual but whatever. That series was way to close with Lebron playing on a bad foot/ankle for me to not believe they would've won.
Celtics don't beat Philly without horford
1) Suns 2) Grizzlies 3) Denver 4) Boston 5) Milwakee 6) Miami 7) Clippers 8) GSW 9)76ers 10) Lakers 11) Cavs 12) Kings 13)Knicks imo
U guys are really doubting the Suns this season š they are stacked right now a full complete team. They should easily be the favorites over Denver and the Lakers.
Itās Denver and Sac!